Noble Pen Meeting
February 4, 2010
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
All those innocent contractors brought in to do the job were killed — casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look: you’re a roofer, some juicy government contract comes your way. You got a wife and kids, the [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
January 28, 2010
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
No story unit–not even a paragraph–ought to begin and end with the state of affairs exactly the same. Even the falling of a leaf should, implicitly or explicitly, bring into focus the subtle variation of feeling tone that it engenders. Always, there must [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
January 21, 2010
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed. The main problem is Artemis’s own intelligence. He bamboozles every test thrown at him. He has puzzled the greatest medical minds and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals.
There [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
January 7th, 2010
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Private balls were never more than middling amusements for spinsters, and Miss Tarabotti was not the kind of spinster who could garner even that much pleasure from the event. To put the pudding in the puff; she had retreated to the library, her [...]
